The temptation to look longingly to idealised visions of Islamic cosmopolitanism as the antithesis to the militant communal solidarity associated…
Category: Politics
In 2008, I saw Jia Zhangke’s film Still Life, and it changed my life. I had never seen a film that had affected me so intensely and knew that, after that moment, I needed to research this director and his films further. What impacted me the most about Jia’s films were their emotional and affective qualities, and how they evoked feelings that lingered long after the films had ended.
Pop music and youth culture are known to be among the great British exports of the late twentieth century. Be…
Tell us a bit about The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945 My book is about the Pilgrims Society, which…
It is a pleasure to see the launch of the first issue of Afghanistan, a journal to showcase the country’s…
Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
My article “Promoting Commercial Agriculture in Nigeria Through a Reform of the Legal and Institutional Frameworks” in African Journal of International…
At the recent Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Theresa May’s speech turned into the stuff of every presenter’s nightmares, something…
It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…
Since the Federal Republic of Germany’s admission into NATO in 1955, German–American relations have been a cornerstone of transatlantic and…